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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






2. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






3. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






4. Final stable syllable

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5. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






6. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






7. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






8. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






9. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






10. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






11. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






12. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






13. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






14. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






15. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






16. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






17. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






18. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






19. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






20. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






21. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






22. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






23. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






24. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






25. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






26. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






27. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






28. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






29. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






30. State Board of Eduation






31. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






32. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






33. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






34. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






35. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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36. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






37. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






38. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






39. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






40. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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41. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






42. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






43. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






44. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






45. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






46. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






47. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






48. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






49. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






50. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes